Fraud-preventive for coin-controlled apparatus.



No. 717,891. PATENTED JAN. 6, 1903. H. S. MILLS.

FRAUD PREVENTIVE FOR. GOIN GONTROLLED APPARATUS.

APPLIGATION FILED APR. 7, 1902.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Grace.

HERBERT S; MILLS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

FRAUD-PREVENTIVE FOR COIN-CONTROLLED APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 717,891, dated anuary 6, 1903.

Application filed April 7,1902. Serial No. 101,712. No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HERBERT S. MILLs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fraud-Preventives for Coin-Controlled Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to means for preventing the use of bogus coins in the operation of coin-controlled machines; and

my primary object is to provide improved mechanism adapted to throw out or divert from the coin-chute bogus coins not possessing the qualities of the proper coins, the proper coins being permitted to continue in the coin-chute throughout its entire length, so as to reach the operative mechanism of the machine.

My invention is illustrated in its preferred embodiment in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a plate equipped with a coin-chute provided with the improved coinejecting device, one side of the coin-chute being removed to expose the coin-passage; and Fig. 2, a view of the same, the two views being employed, respectively, to illustrate the path of a proper coin and the path of a bogus coin.

The preferred construction is as follows:

A represents a plate ,to which is secured a coin-chute A, surmounted by a device A of common construction, which serves for the introduction of the coin into the coinchute. The coin-chute has preferably an inclined The vertical portion a is provided with an enlargement or oflset portion a in which is mounted a swinging member a A chute-section a serves as a continuation of the offset portion of the chute and in use serves to conduct the coin to the operative mechanism of the ma surface a and at sufficient distance therefrom to permit a bogus coin to pass through by way of the space a".

The operation and manner of use will be understood readily from the foregoing detailed description. The mechanism here described is applied to any coin-controlled machine, the chute-section a serving to direct the coins to the machine proper, where they serve to control the operation of the machine. The coin is deposited at the device A and fed into the chute A in a manner well understood. If the proper coin is introduced, it strikes the inclined edge ofthe member a which member is preferably of tempered steel, and is caused to rebound and strike the member a with sufficient force to move the 'same to the dotted position shown in Fig. 1

and pass into the chute-section 01. If adisk of lead, wood, cardboard, or other relatively non-resilient material is employed, it will fail to bound over the pin a and will fall through the space a", it being understood that the member a normallycloses the entrance to the offset chute-section and possesses suificient inertia to prevent it from being operatively moved by any but the proper coin. If an aluminium disk is employed, while it may bound up and strike the swinging plate 0, its light weight will give it insufficient momentum to allow it to pass by the plate into the offset chute-section.

Changes in details of constructionwithin the spirit of my invention may be made. Hence no undue limitation is to be understood from the foregoing detailed description.

What I regard as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- V 1. In means of the character described, the combination of a chute provided with an offset portion, a piece encountered by the coin during its fall and serving to hurl the coin laterally with reference to its path of descent, and means obstructing the offset portion of the chute and movable by a proper coin rebounding from said piece, for the purpose set forth.

2. In means of the character described, the combination of a chute-section through which coins may fall freely, an offset chute-section separated therefrom by a space through which bogus coins may pass freely, and a resilient device for throwing the proper coins into said chute-section.

3. In means of the character described, the combination of a chute-section through which coins may fall freely, an offset chute-section separated therefrom by a space through which bogus coins may pass freely, a resilient device for throwing the coinsinto said chute-section and means for obstructing the offset chutesection and coin-operated, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. In means of the character described, the combination of achute-section through which coins may fall freely, an ofiset chute-section separated therefrom by a space across which proper coins may bound, a resilient device for throwing the proper coins into said chutesection, and a coin-actuated pivoted obstruction for said offset chute-section.

5. In means of the character described, the combination of a chute-section through which the coins may fall to acquire momentum, a hard resilient member forming a bottom for said chute-section, and an offset chute-section separated from said bottom by a space through which bogus coins may fall freely, for the purpose set forth.

6. In means of the character described, the combination of a chute-section through which the coins may fall to acquire momentum, a

hard resilient member forming a bottom for said chute-section, an ofiset chute section separated from said bottom by a space through which bogus coins may fall freely, and a coin-actuated pivoted obstruction for said offset chute-section, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

7. In means of the character described, the combination of a chute-section through which the coins may fall to acquire momentum, a bounding-piece provided with an inclined surface, and an opposite chute-section provided with a coin-passage located above said inclined surface and separated therefrom by a space through which bogus coins may fall freely.

S. In means of the character described, the combination of a chute-section through which the coins may fall to acquire momentum, a boundingpiece provided with an inclined surface, an offset chu te-section provided with a coin-passage located above said inclined surface and separated therefrom by a space through which bogus coins may fall freely,

and a pivoted coin-actuated member guard- 

